Newt Gingrich: “We spent 16 years growing a majority, all of it standing on…”

“All you gotta do is relax and let him roll for a while. And so in that sense, what happened was which was. Which was. And I wrote a book on it called March the majority. We spent 16 years growing a majority, all of it standing on Reagan's shoulders. The contract is entirely Reagan. But when we won, because we had based everything we were doing on the American people. So every single item in the contract is 70% or better.” (20:40–20:45)

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